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A cattle baron holds Paladin and two other men hostage, planning to hang one of them at sunrise for the murder of his wife.
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00:00Bury this man here.
00:16Tell the law about it if you want.
00:20But don't forget to tell them what you were about to do here.
00:30THE END
00:59They're pommels, mister.
01:01What?
01:02They're pommels!
01:05You look behind you, mister, and it won't be so funny.
01:12Jackson, take his gun!
01:20Now, wouldn't you like to tell me something?
01:24Come on, you are going with us.
01:29Get down!
01:39Get down!
01:40She's dead.
01:56That's supposed to mean something to me?
01:58What's your name, your business here about?
02:03That's my story.
02:09You're a long way from San Francisco.
02:11I had an assignment in Fort Worth.
02:12I'm on my way home.
02:13You'll stay a while.
02:14Sit there.
02:19I'm Andy Fisher.
02:20Paladin.
02:21Who's he?
02:22Him?
02:23That's Louis Strong.
02:24Just the biggest man in the whole entire world.
02:26He owns most all this Texas Panhandle.
02:27He owns most all this Texas Panhandle.
02:28Strong.
02:29I've heard of him.
02:30You're not with him.
02:31No more than you.
02:32They found me on the road.
02:33They found me on the road.
02:34I'm Andy Fisher.
02:35I'm Andy Fisher.
02:37Paladin.
02:38Who's he?
02:39Him?
02:40That's Louis Strong.
02:41He's the biggest man in the whole entire world.
02:45He owns most all this Texas Panhandle.
02:46Strong.
02:47I've heard of him.
02:48You're not with him.
02:49No more than you.
02:50They found me on the road.
02:52Strong is planning a party.
02:53Looks like.
02:54I guess he picked me up to play.
02:55While someone's to dance.
02:59Maybe somebody else is to play.
03:02And I'm to dance.
03:03Strom's planning a party looks like I guess he picked me up to play while someone's to dance
03:14Maybe somebody else's to play and I'm to dance
03:33So what's this all about get down over that horse get over there
03:58Now there's been some mistake sir, my name is Broderick Clyde Broderick for the sharps rifle company
04:03I'm the territorial representative salesman drummer if you will I never carry a weapon
04:09I never fired one and when you're two gentlemen there accosted me on the road. She's dead
04:16Who's dead shock tactics Clyde you're supposed to give yourself away when mr. Strom says those words
04:24Strom
04:27What would he give away about himself well now mr. Strom if I knew that I'd be your man wouldn't I
04:33But your question
04:35What would he give away about himself? Let me see you're obviously looking for a man. You don't know who he is
04:40He's in this area. He rides a black horse
04:45You have plans for him, and you think he's responsible for the death of a woman, right?
04:50My wife
04:52She was wearing a black shirt or a black jacket
04:56I don't know what you're talking about neither do I
05:07One of you was lying
05:09Well, maybe if you'll tell us a little more the two who aren't lying could be some help
05:14I'll get a start I
05:17Remember reading about your wedding a little more than two years ago wasn't it she was a young girl
05:23a member of an old Spanish family in San Antonio
05:28Vasquez
05:30Maria Felicia Vasquez, right?
05:34I was punching cows up in San Antonio at the time of the wedding
05:38It was a big do
05:39You knew Maria?
05:41You know better than that
05:43the daughter of Vasquez
05:46She wouldn't spit on a twenty two dollar a month cow hand
05:48Everybody in San Antonio knew of the family strong as a prominent family why sold her father to custom-made rifles
06:00I've had business in San Antonio several times in the last two years
06:04Any one of the three of us might have met her
06:07She was my wife
06:09mine
06:11Like the land is mine like everything. I own is mine. I
06:15I
06:17Know she was seeing a man
06:19I left the house yesterday to check my outriders. I
06:23Wasn't supposed to come home last night. I changed my mind
06:28There was a black horse back to the house when I rode in
06:32Maria blew out the lamp when I stepped into the living room
06:35But I caught just a flash of him a fashion of moonlight on his sleeve as he was getting out the window
06:41It was a black sleeve I
06:43It was a black sleeve I
06:45Fired just one shot I
06:47I'd have got him too
06:50Except Maria stepped into the path
06:53It was your bullet that killed your wife she's dead because of one of you I
07:00Mean to hang that man
07:03He got away riding West a man wearing black riding a black horse
07:08He'd have had to pass through hang town this morning
07:11It's the only place he could have gotten water the people in the town remember only three men passing through
07:17Who fit and I see here it couldn't be me. I was in hang town last night. I stayed in the hotel. They'll tell you
07:24Who's someone with you all night? I know I went to bed early
07:30It's a two-hour ride to my place from hang town you could have slipped away and back and no one the wiser, but I didn't
07:37Where did you spend the night Paladin under the stars I slept on my saddle the same
07:53Strom if it's all the same to you, I'll be on my way, and I'd like my weapons return wait a minute. I'll ride a piece with you
08:01You're staying here
08:03My Noel
08:05Pick the fire there'll be two of my men watching you every minute you won't be able to see us
08:11But you can't make a move that we don't see
08:22Three men three different stories
08:25Too bad we haven't got time to check
08:28We're gonna have to do better than that
08:30Guess we'll all haul rope well, I wouldn't say that
08:34Well you got something in mind
08:39Well, probably all asleep now except the two guards
08:43Attack the guards well, we can't even see out there the fire gets much lower. They won't be able to see us either
08:51They're not gonna let that fire die
08:54Well, I certainly hope not
09:00You always carry that always
09:02Always
09:03Clyde
09:08Stay where you are gentlemen. My friend has a gun on you. Oh, we got no place to go
09:23Manuel
09:24Yes
09:30Don't alarm your friend. Just call him down
09:36Hey, Jackson come down here
09:39It's all right
09:44Yeah, I think I've got a man figured out
09:46Who is it?
09:47Look here
09:50Just drop the rifle
09:52Drop it
09:57All right, come on. Let's get out of here. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. We'll need horses. That means we've got to take Strom and the rest of them
10:01I
10:05I didn't mention that along with the guards I'd be watching all night
10:09I promise I'll kill the next man who fires
10:14Throw down those guns
10:16If we could just get to the darkness
10:17If we could just get to the darkness
10:19There's not a chance, Clyde. They'd cut us down before we took two steps
10:24You want it finished now?
10:27Or do you want the four hours till breakfast?
10:30He's gonna kill us anyway
10:32Four hours is four hours
10:34No odds, Clyde. No odds at all. Throw it down
10:37Now that you've blown off steam
10:54Maybe you'd best get back to the business at hand
10:57I never fired a gun before
11:00But I wish now I'd taken at least one shot at you
11:07You certainly don't want to see daylight
11:09Don't you shoot Strom?
11:11If Manuel hadn't come in front of the barrel
11:14Like your wife came up in front of the barrel?
11:23He told us his wife moved in front of his bullet
11:26She moved faster than his bullet
11:29That ain't very likely
11:33It's possible if Strom was heavy on the trigger
11:35But we just saw him hold off on a snapshot
11:38What else?
11:40Strom, you told us this man who got away
11:42Rode off without ever looking back
11:44Now I think if he had any feeling for that girl
11:46He'd have looked back when you shot
11:48He'd have ridden back to see if she was hurt
11:50Are you saying that this girl is not dead?
11:52No, I think she's dead
11:54But Strom, how much time passed after that man got away?
11:58How much time before you shot your wife?
12:01Why don't you answer that, Strom?
12:02How much time, Strom?
12:05Maybe a half hour?
12:08You mean you murdered her?
12:10You just shot her down like that?
12:12Like that?
12:14Just like I'm gonna hang one of you
12:16Or all of you in the morning
12:18Well, if you murdered her, what do you want from us?
12:19She's dead because of one of you.
12:20I'll be waiting. Just call me.
12:22If you want to tell me anything.
12:23If you want to tell me anything.
12:27If you want to tell me anything.
12:31Then he's dead.
12:33I'm gonna be waiting.
12:35Just call me.
12:38If you want to tell me anything.
12:40I'll be waiting.
12:42I'll be waiting.
12:44I'll be waiting.
12:46Just call me.
12:47Well, it does get cold out here at night.
13:17Why don't you stop that?
13:19What else is there to do?
13:21We got company.
13:31Anyone for gambling?
13:39We never play for higher stakes.
13:41What's on your mind, Paladin?
13:43Well, now, there's no sense of all three of us being hung.
13:45And all one has to say to Strom is, I'm it.
13:50Well, who's gonna say that?
13:51Whoever gets the smallest rock.
13:53I don't want any part of it.
13:56Strom would have to let two of us go.
13:58Those two could double back and try and save the one who had to stay.
14:02Yeah, but suppose he didn't let one of us go, or two of us go,
14:05and suppose they didn't get back in time.
14:07That's two supposes against a sure-fire three-man hanging.
14:15You two take your choice.
14:17Rock, you're lined up this way.
14:19I'll take the one that's left.
14:23All right.
14:24You wanna go first?
14:25I'll take this one on this end.
14:42I'll take the one on that end.
14:43you win that's not funny
14:53Clyde you have my word
14:55as long as I live
14:58you live
14:59you want to call Strom
15:01you call him
15:04Strom
15:11you have something to tell me
15:22yes
15:23I'm listening
15:27well I
15:31you see
15:32no
15:38no I'm not the man
15:40I didn't know your wife
15:42I didn't have anything to do with your wife
15:44and I'm not going to say I did
15:45well Clyde you certainly are a disappointment
15:48all right what are you going to do
15:50kill me
15:50no
15:51if that's the truth Clyde
15:53you stick with me
15:54there isn't much time left
15:56I'm not fooling
15:57I'll fill those nooses
15:58Strom why don't you content yourself
16:02with one murder this week
16:04killing a woman
16:05that's a big enough chore for you
16:07and after all you had plenty of justification for killing her
16:10after all she did to you
16:12by the way what did she do to you exactly
16:15you tell us the man was there
16:17but what exactly were they doing
16:19she said they were talking
16:22you were just somebody she could talk to
16:24what does a man talk to a woman about
16:28all I wanted was his name
16:32that's all I asked her for
16:34and you killed her when she wouldn't tell
16:35why didn't she tell if there was nothing between them but talk
16:39because you would have killed him
16:41you wouldn't believe it
16:42I don't believe it now
16:44it does happen
16:45now don't be telling Strom about women
16:48he knows about women
16:51don't let all this upset you
16:56here I'll play you a song
16:59to quiet your nerves
17:01and steady your hand
17:02for the morning's work
17:04there is a place that I do know
17:09where my true love goes
17:11to drink her wine
17:12in her store-bought clothes
17:14and she sits her down
17:16on some brave boy's knee
17:18now don't you know
17:19that vexes me
17:22and yet she cries
17:23I love you best
17:25but a troubled mind
17:27can know no rest
17:30for a troubled mind
17:32can know no rest
17:35you try to write me
17:37you young
17:38young?
17:40is that the rub strong?
17:42I'm young, she's young
17:43so that puts us together, huh?
17:47could have been, couldn't it?
17:48young man, someone closer
17:49to her own age
17:50it could be
17:53a dandy with a guitar
17:55a drifter with easy words
17:58and no morals
17:59that's right
18:00could have been me
18:03she wanted to talk to
18:04and why not?
18:06what would she want
18:07with a vicious old goat like you?
18:08Strom
18:09it could have been an older man
18:11someone who knew the world
18:12someone who could paint
18:13word pictures for her
18:14places she'd never seen
18:17and never would see
18:18locked up in that big house of yours
18:20somebody had to tell her
18:22she was clever
18:23she was pretty
18:24and wanted
18:25could have been a lonely man, Strom
18:28a man who wandered every place
18:30because he had no place
18:31he could draw strength
18:33from someone like her loving him
18:34he'd take more than he could give
18:36but he could make her feel needed
18:37because he'd see her loneliness
18:39manuel
18:46jackson
18:48look at that fire
18:51get breakfast
18:52finish this
18:56finish this
18:58I lost my head
19:11I think you saved my life
19:14yeah, for the moment
19:16three fools
19:17that's what we are
19:18well, I find good comradeship
19:20comforting at a time like this
19:22hurry it up
19:37patience, Strom
19:39I want to keep you long
19:41from your pleasure
19:41it will be a pleasure
19:43you had it coming to you
19:44well, the man who killed Maria
19:46should hang
19:47there's no question about that
19:48and we all know who did that
19:49that's enough
19:50stand up
19:52all of you
19:52well, since we must
19:58you can turn these two loose
20:01I'm your man
20:02you didn't think I let you hang
20:07did you?
20:08I knew it
20:08what were you to Maria?
20:12well, Strom
20:13it's a little late
20:13to be worrying about that
20:14isn't it?
20:15well, she was so certain
20:16just the one rope
20:22thanks, Paladin
20:27I'm
20:28I'm sorry
20:29say, but
20:30I'm not the man
20:32one of you is
20:32now, my life
20:34just don't wait too long
20:38come on, Paladin
20:40we don't have to stand here
20:48and watch this
20:49you stay
20:50nobody leave till it's over
20:51I will not stay here
20:53we don't need these two
20:56wait, folks
20:58well, you want to stay
21:00and get it
21:01I'll never get
21:20come on
21:20well
21:22Is there any special song I can send you off with, Palatin?
21:38Anything you like, but don't wait too long.
21:52I've never shot one of these things before.
22:09I'm doing fine.
22:11Keep it up.
22:13Cover me the best way you can.
22:22Hold it.
22:41No more.
22:49You see Andy?
22:51No.
22:52Andy!
22:53I'm back here in the clearing.
22:54I've got strong.
22:56Come on.
23:12Cut him down.
23:14Move!
23:21Clyde, when this started, you were going someplace.
23:35You riding my way?
23:36Well, bye.
23:40I think I'll hold on to this.
23:44I love Maria.
23:57She liked me.
23:59That's all.
24:00She needed a friend, somebody she could talk to.
24:04So once in a while, we'd get together and we'd talk.
24:08That was all.
24:10He killed her because she talked to another man.
24:13She was nothing to him.
24:16Just something he owned.
24:20Don't you see?
24:21Mary, I had to have time to make him pay for what he did to Marie.
24:26But I swear, I wouldn't let you hang.
24:29You bury him here.
24:43And the others.
24:46Tell the law about this if you want.
24:48But don't forget to tell what you were about to do here.
24:51Well, I'll be right back.
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